Key Points
I took 20 million pages of PACER and put them online..
At the Bangalore Literature Festival earlier this month, Malamud was showcasing his work with the Servants of Knowledge initiative that seeks to digitise books across Indian languages..
When Malamud met Pitroda in 2010, I brought copies of Indian standards and said Im thinking of putting these online because I think theyre important for public safety..
Eventually, in 2015, a group of activists including Malamud, founder of the website Indian Kanoon, Sushant Sinha and digital activist Srinivas Kodali filed a plea with the Delhi high court, asking that the charges be lifted..
. Millions in funding, from organisations ranging from the UKs Arcadia Fund to Google, help keep it all going. . [For the Google grant, other applicants were] fancy think tanks from Washington, DC, who proposed holding conferences, I was like give me the money and heres the data I will put online, he says..
